The denomination wanted to avoid a schism by voting against gay marriage. It might get one anyway.
Protesters chant during the United Methodist Church's meeting in St. Louis on Tuesday. By Julie Zauzmer and Julie Zauzmer Reporter covering religion, faith and spirituality Email Bio Follow Sarah Pulliam Bailey Sarah Pulliam Bailey Reporter covering religion Email Bio Follow February 27 at 5:53 PM Dumbarton United Methodist Church is the oldest United Methodist congregation in Washington, D.C.
Instead, LGBT advocates and scores of American pastors left the meeting vowing that the fight was far from finished. Many pledged to continue disobeying the church’s rules, or to attempt to vote on the question again at the denomination’s meeting in 2020. And some spoke tentatively of splitting from the United Methodist Church altogether."We’ve had the schism.
Most of those denominations saw conservative churches leave the body when they opted for same-sex marriage, often provoking fights over ownership of church property. Now, the United Methodist Church faces the opposite prospect: saying no to same-sex marriage, and seeing liberal churches leave. The demographic trends point away from ever approving same-sex marriage in the church, argued John Lomperis, a Methodist who works for the conservative group Institute on Religion and Democracy. “This clearly was a historic turning point,” he said.
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